3rd. In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch my wife, I
stopped at the great Coffee-house there, where I never was
before: where Dryden the poet (I knew at Cambridge), and all the
wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole of our
College. And had I had time then, or could at other times, it
will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty
and pleasant discourse. But I could not tarry, and as it was
late, they were all ready to go away.
4th. To St. Paul's School, and up to hear the upper form
examined; and there was kept by very many of the Mercers,
Clutterbucke, [Probably Alderman Clutterbuck, one of the proposed
Knights of the Royal Oak for Middlesex. There was a Sir Thomas
Clutterbuck of London, CIRCITER 1670.] Barker, Harrington, and
others; and with great respect used by them all, and had a noble
dinner. Here they tell me, that in Dr. Colett's [Dean of St.
Paul's, and founder of the School.] will he says that he would
have a Master found for the School that hath good skill in Latin,
and (if it could be) one that had some knowledge of the Greeke;
so little was Greeke known here at that time.
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